Andrew Huberman Pt. 1 On Mastering Sleep, Stress, Anxiety, Hormones, & Improving Eyesight For Optimal Health Benefits
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Skin Is a Hormone Related Organ
When you get sunlight on to your body for 20 or 30 minutes per day, there's a particular cell type in your skin called the coratinosite. The caratinosite makes molecules called p 53. And that p 53 molecule sets off a signal to the testes and the ovaries and the adrina glands to make more testostron and estrogen in the proper ratios. This almost certainly has to do with an ancient form of seasonal breeding. In times of abundance, we, our body feel safer to reproduce. If it's winter and you have to stay indoors, that generally means resources are scarce. So this is a just so story of why this would all work.
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